Darren Kettle drove away from his Las Posas Estates home in the hills above Camarillo thinking he would be gone a matter of hours. The Metrolink CEO was working from home on Wednesday morning when ...

Beginning in spring, visitors to parking lots at Ventura's Harbor Cove Beach and other Ventura Harbor lots could start paying for parking under a new plan being considered by the California ...

Editor's note: We're ending coverage on this blog with our final entries Friday evening, Nov. 8. We will continue to cover the Mountain Fire at vcstar.com. A wildfire started in the Somis area on ...

As crews increased containment around the Mountain Fire on Monday, the forecast calls for winds to kick up again. The National Weather Service expects light to moderate wind conditions starting ...

A house fire in Santa Paula Wednesday morning left three people with minor injuries, authorities said. Firefighters responding to the blaze, reported around 8:45 a.m. in the 1200 block of Fern ...

Elvia and Norm Bauer left their Las Posas Estates home early. The Mountain Fire was burning near Somis when Elvia got an alert from a wildfire app Wednesday morning. Her daughter, a few miles away ...

The Thousand Oaks father accused of beating his 4-year-old daughter so severely that she became comatose for nearly a year and was left a quadriplegic was convicted Tuesday of torture and physical ...

The Mountain Fire is largely "buttoned up," Ventura County's fire chief Dustin Gardner said at a news conference Monday evening. As authorities get a clearer view of the damage, however, the work ...

A wildfire "moving dangerously fast" exploded during a Santa Ana wind storm Wednesday morning, tearing through miles of local hillsides, destroying homes and forcing thousands to flee as the blaze ...

Today is Veterans Day, a proud patriotic moment for all of us to pause and acknowledge the tens of millions (41,000,000) Americans who served in our military. Today I will celebrate those vets and ...

With love in our hearts, we announce the passing of Refugio “Cuco” Villa, 93, on Wednesday, October 30, 2024 in Ventura, CA. Refugio was born on August 13, 1931 in Ysleta, Texas. He grew up ...

As the Mountain Fire continued to burn in the heart of Ventura County, officials started to assess its toll on agriculture, damage estimates that quickly reached $2.4 million and are expected to ...